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TIL in 1970 a disgruntled postgraduate student deliberately infected his roommates with Ascaris suum, a parasitic nematode. This was the first documented human infection by this species.

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oBBmY TIL Eminem's daughter Hailie Scott was crowned homecoming queen, and he watched it from an empty classroom to avoid taking the attention from her
78DPb TIL of the Sampit Conflict (2001), in which indigenous Dayak went back to their headhunting ways and massacred/beheaded hundreds of migrant Madurese people in the city of Sampit. Around 500-1000 people were killed and 100-700 were beheaded.
DM5P TIL That the Pope remarked to Michaelangelo, upon seeing the Sistine Chapel for the first time: “It ought to have gold. It looks poor”. Michaelangelo responded that “The biblical figures depicted were poor too” The work stands unretouched till this day.
l7OKV TIL There Are Multiple Species Of Moths With "Pug" In Their Name
pYyNZ TIL: That the use of toilet paper started in ancient China around the 2nd century BC. Prior to this, the ancient Romans used a "tersorium", consisting of a sponge on a stick. The stick would be soaked in a water channel in front of a toilet, and then stuck through a hole at the front of the toilet.